A good plot has unobtrusive elegance and grace; a bad one flattens everything in its path, character, atmosphere, setting, story itself, everything clunked down to a series of events happening one after the other. on 23 Feb 2009 at 4: 02 pm Abby Godwin

A good plot has unobtrusive elegance and grace; a bad one flattens everything in its path, character, atmosphere, setting, story itself, everything clunked down to a series of events happening one after the other.

"It is not going to be safe if we don't have people sitting down" and the guides to reprimand them if the don't, he cautioned, adding that standing passengers have indeed clunked their heads on traffic signals, though he spared me the gory details when I befriended him at the end of the tour.

Reuters But as we've continued our tally of last-place finishes, awarding less-precious "metals" to athletes bringing up the rear — lead medals to those who finish last, tin for second-to-last and zinc to the third-to-last — it was Russia that clunked home with 19 total medals, more than any other nation.